Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-01-28
Death of Another Pioneer.

Mrs. Rachael A. Tillcy died at her
residence in this place, Monday morn
ing, about three o'clock. She had
been i'll several weeks and the severe
nature of her malaiy soon left no
doubt of a fatal termination. Her
bedside was attended during her i'll
hess hv only few friends outside the
family circle, although her many deeds
of charity, so unostentatiously made
AS to escape general observation, were
nevertheless well enough known to
have entitled her to some consldera-
ton aside from the claims of COM
mon humanity. She spent small
fortune, a few years ago, in employ
ment of counsel and the payment of
court fees for the defense OF her brother
charged with murder, and although he
was not acquitted, there seems to be
little doubt but that her extraordinary
tilial devotion led to a sitting OF the
evidence so closely that ample grounds
were discovered for reducing the ex-
IRENE penalty OF the original verdict.
Many have been the occasions in
which she has aided those in embar-
rassment and distress, and the result
has been that a large proportion of the
competence left at the death OF her
| husband, Il few years ago, aggregating
about $4,000. has been dispensed by
a hand controlled more ly the heart
than the head, leaving her almost des-
titute at the time OF her death, With
the loss of her money came the loss OF
friends and the reputation she once
bore, until we find her with hut few
generous hands to aid and no disinter.
ested voices to counsel, deserted on hei
dcath-lcd 10y her own sex, and neg
lccted by many who had known hcI
bounty. This does not seem to coin
eide with the recognized teachings OF
Christian duty. 1t does not appear
to accord with that grand conception
of moral character taught in holy
writ, Is humanity so frail that a fear
full penalty must attend SO closely and
persistently on the footsteps of trans.
erosion? Is it right that the immOr,
til spirit which has actuated hands to
wseathe so many garlands for the cas-
kets of the dead, should pass to the
Unknown Shore without one floral
tribute to cheer its flight? Must the
requium be sung by voices unattuned
to melody and without a woman's
notes joining in the symphony? II
salvation is found only through Faith
might it not have been well to aid
one cropping in darkness to find the
first round of the ladder that ends in
the realms of the blest? The other
course may be right, but if so the
story of the Pharisee loses its force and
we seem to look in vain to the grea'
fountain of divine prccept for justifica
ton. If it, indeed, We true that
"Charity covcreth multitude of sins
who will assume to fix the station in
the Great Unknown accorded to those
who have not allowed circumstance
and surrounding to restrain those ten.
der impulses of the soul that find ex.
preston in alienation of distress? II
the promises of a Loving Father mean
anything, may not gentle spirit hope
to find reward even though, while ami.
mating its earthly temple of clay, il
may not have possessed the moral or
the physical strength to have kept in
the narrow channel marked out by
creed-bound pilots? "The merciful
shall find mercy; "By their fruits
shall yo know them," and by their
works shall all he judged.
Rachael A. Leonard was born in
st. Clair county, Illinois, in 1874
making her at death nearly 43
years of age She came to this
Territory with her parents when
six years Of age, to what is now Cow
litz county, settling near Monticello.
She was married to NJ. r. Tilley in
May. 1860, and that year came to this
county with her husband, where she
has ever since resided. He died about
five years ago. Four children survive
the parents, one daughter and three
sons, the youngest of whom is about
fourteen years of age. The remains of
the dece,;sed were inferred in Masonic
cemetery, Tuesday afternoon, beside
those of her husband.
LIEUTENANT Greeley has succeeded
Gen. Hazcn rs Chief Signal Officer at
Wa shinUfon who JinI m, Tho 1ftb